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World's laziest CEO. CEO of NinjaPear. Ex-Founder of Proxycurl (10+M), Steven founded 5 other startups: Gom VPN, Kloudsec, SilvrBullet, NuMoney, and SharedHere.
So I pitched to a VC today, and I got a same-day response after sending over the deck. > We usually invest at Series A and often write cheques of $2-3mil for a start. Perhaps we can continue to monitor your progress? If I was any younger, I might have
I am from the special forces, not because I served as a Naval Diver, but because my company operates as a small but lethal team. Two years ago, when it was just Bach and me, we built a database of businesses in the Asia Pacific region. Complete with employees, their
This is my favorite question for people (over drinks). I will like to think that the craziest act that you sought out willingly defines who you are as a person. And this is important to me because I seek rebels. Rebels do whatever it takes to get to the destination
In the last month, I lost : * My car keys. It cost me $900 to replace it, thank you BMW. * Not one, but two Stojo cups. One of it got caught in my car's convertible top because I drove off while opening the soft top. * My Mi Band 4.
Some things cannot be rushed. I bought a few shrimps for my tank yesterday. And I have been drip acclimatizing them with water from their new home. But somehow, they are not grazing as they should. Something must be wrong So I took out the test kit that I have
Two weeks ago, I announced that I was going raise 900,000USD for Sapiengraph. I am raising funds because I believe there is a serious opportunity for (your) data that will disappear from the public domain in the next ten years. Yes, I am referring to those very public Instagram
I have an irrational hatred for bureaucracy. It is probably why I always find bones to pick with the civil service. But bureaucracy is only the symptom. What I truly have an issue with is inefficiency. Centralized systems are efficient There is a reason why the internet has been converging
This is a rewrite of my original post by which I extolled the need for you not to build your business on somebody else's business. Instead, I have rewritten it to include an obsession of mine. I am obsessed with a censorship-resilient infrastructure. It stems from my liberal
My staff and I were debating if Grab falls under our target audience, and she insisted that she had written Grab down previously and I had shot down the idea. Then I asked, but if you believed in it, why did you not argue your point? > Because that would
The new developer in the office encountered a development issue today, and he posted his question on Slack. The CTO stepped in and helped. But the new developer repeated the problem again and again. The bug seemed like it an issue with the deployment made by the CTO. The CTO
Our office is huge, and I carved out the empty portion of the office which had some empty tables lying around to offset our rent. We have a new tenant moving in their stuff today, and the entire office was messy with their stuff lying all around. They had initially
Nubela is founded by Steven Goh (myself) from the revenue of the company's first product - Gom VPN. I built Gom VPN as a response to MDA"s filter to block porn in Singapore. And Gom VPN is a Chrome Extension that allowed the user to bypass
Today is the last day for 18-year-old Scott at LandX. So I will dedicate my blog post today to celebrate Scott. How we found Scott We found Scott because Jerrell and Scott are close friends and Jerrell was an intern at NuMoney then. It was crunch time, and we needed
I am not good at fund-raising mostly because I struggle to empathize with investors. The genius of Elon Musk Elon Musk is a helluva entrepreneur. I do not agree with everything he does, but there is one thing I admire about him -- his ability to don the investor hat,
Most people do not know how to write great titles. To write a great title, it boils down to "What's in it for you (the reader)?" In this post, I will be using email subjects as examples. However, the same techniques can be used on titles
There are no CRMs out there that is good enough to serve my lazy ass. CRMs require discipline, and if I have to take N minutes of my day to maintain my CRM, I will not use a CRM. Also, if I cannot even be bothered to do it, how
For far too many times in my career, I have felt a dreaded gloom as I thump away on my keyboard, wondering why my efforts were not translating into actual results. Products always begin well with accelerating progress, then they hit a milestone, and it seems like no matter what
It was a > 10x returns in a few months. But I did not sell it, and I still hold my coins to this day. There lies the problem with me; I do not have an exit plan until it is too late like how I started a commitment to
I am trying to grow shrimps. But the home for these shrimps is a planted tank. And it is not easy building a planted tank in Singapore. First, I need a chiller to bring down the temperature to 23 degrees Celcius. Then I need a CO2 cylinder, to mist the
The task to crawl Singaporeans on Professional Social Network was dispatched to a programmer two weeks ago. But up till yesterday, it was not close to being done yet. The programmer was still extracting everything he can from the profile. There lies the problem(s) The first is obviously in
We sent out the offer letter for our marketer today, and we are ramping up our marketing efforts for Nubela. Since I started writing daily, I have subscribed to a fair bit of transparency. And in the same vein, I decided I will "open source" our step by
> Warning: There is no point to this post. I am writing down some thoughts that I have been incubating in my head. Grab has maxed out its total addressable market (TAM). In spite of its dominant position, Grab's revenue from its ride-hailing service is far too low
I received a response from my first CMO applicant today. He wrote a sample blog post which left me with more questions after I read it. I will attach his sample post at the end of this article. The questions I asked were: 1. Who is the target audience for
> Hi steven. I think we do not report ___ to the police. Just tell them that we find out he stole the money from us and we forgive him. Putra sent this message to me at 8:07 pm this evening on my way back from work. An ex-employee was
In this article, I am introspecting about my daily blog posts. A link for everything These days, I seem to have a link to explain my thought, which is already jotted down in this blog. I have to push through the fatigue It is 12:23 am right now, and
